Gallatin at a Glance BA PROFILES Founded in 1972
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Gallatin at a Glance BA PROFILES Who we are Founded in 1972, NYU Gallatin is a small, interdisciplinary college within New York University. Its BA Program in Individualized Study challenges students to develop an integrated program of study. Te School emphasizes excellent teaching, intensive advising and mentoring, and a combination of program fexibility and academic rigor. Gallatin faculty represent disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, drama, art, design, architecture, law, science, business, creative writing, environmental studies and more. Students at Gallatin pursue their interests in a variety of ways by: · taking courses at Gallatin and the other schools of NYU · studying abroad through NYU’s Global Network · designing tutorials and independent studies · exploring a wide variety of internships and other forms of gaining knowledge through practice. What we do A key to Gallatin’s individualized approach is its faculty advisers. Advisers work directly with students to ensure that their academic programs have depth, breadth, and coherence and that they are consistent with students’ academic and professional goals. In our Interdisciplinary Seminars, students study the world’s intellectual traditions in small, discussion-based seminars. Our Writing Program ofers courses in creative writing, poetry, journalism, comedy writing, and expository writing. Gallatin’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program is based on the artist-scholar model and combines academic and creative work in the arts. Located in the heart of the NYU campus in historic Greenwich Village, Gallatin creates a strong sense of community and fosters lasting relationships among professors, advisers, and classmates. At the same time, Gallatin students have access to the virtually unlimited resources of New York City. Degree Requirements In their frst year, Gallatin students are required to take three Gallatin courses: an interdisciplinary seminar and two writing courses. Tey build skills in research, writing, and critical thinking that help them work with complex interdisciplinary materials and approaches to study. Students must fulfll liberal arts requirements that include courses in the humanities and social sciences, in pre-modern and early modern periods, and a science course. Many Gallatin Interdisciplinary Seminars cover a wide range of topics and areas of the world and allow students to meet these requirements, as can courses in the other Schools of NYU. In their second year at Gallatin, students complete the Intellectual Autobiography and Plan or Concentration (IAPC). Te IAPC details steps the student will take toward defning a concentration. Gallatin students work closely with faculty advisers to ensure that they are building a coherent concentration. Te concentration is a program of study organized around a theme, problem, activity, period of history, area of the world, or central idea. Toward the end of their third year or in their fourth year, Gallatin students prepare their rationale, a paper that defnes the focus of their concentration and sets the agenda for a fnal oral examination called the colloquium. Te colloquium is an intellectual conversation among four people—the student, the student’s primary faculty adviser, and two other faculty members—that draws on a selection of texts representing several academic disciplines and historical periods, and touches on topics both ancient and modern. Te following pages present academic profles that exemplify how some students have organized their courses of study and found success at Gallatin and in the academic and professional worlds. JULIE-ANN HUTCHINSON, BA ’15 CONCENTRATION: Ethics, Public Policy, and International Development COLLOQUIUM: Civil Society and Economic Development Julie-Ann chose the Gallatin School to pursue foreign direct investments coming into the a concentration in ethics, public policy, and country were fnanced by the Chinese government. international development. Gallatin aforded As a direct consequence of her frst internship, her the opportunity to build a core foundation Julie-Ann studied in China to learn more about at NYU’s College of Arts and Science and the its relationships in the global community. In the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public spring of 2013, she served as a Gilman Scholar and Service, fusing her varied interests under Banco Santander Scholar at NYU in Shanghai. Gallatin’s interdisciplinary umbrella. In China, Julie-Ann served as a Reach the World Travel Correspondent, a post that allowed her to Te summer after her freshman year, exchange information with a class of students Julie-Ann served as an intern in the Ofce of in NYC about her study abroad experience. the Prime Minister in Kingston, Jamaica. Tere, Additionally, she interned with the Shanghai she developed a research report on Michael branch of the Global Health and Education Porter’s theory of competitive advantage and Foundation. She was awarded a Gallatin Dean’s constructed a master matrix of the government’s Award for Summer Research to explore the ways policy commitments in order to look at ethical in which US nongovernmental organizations governance. She observed that many of the can contribute to Chinese civil society. 4 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Based on her research and internship Te Social Contract: Early Modern European Political Teory experience in China, Julie-Ann developed Postcolonial African Cities Kinship Community: Ancient Texts and Modern Teories the working paper “Emergent China and US- China Civil Society Tensions.” In the fall of INDEPENDENT STUDY 2013, Julie-Ann interned with the Lehigh Editing the Literacy Review Valley Economic Development Corporation, “Others” as Ourselves where she researched regional economic development and drafted a report entitled INTERNSHIPS Global Health and Education Organization in Shanghai “Sustainable Economic Development: Deploying High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies the Lehigh Valley’s Resources for Growth and Prosperity.” She interned in Washington, NYU SHANGHAI DC, at the US Department of Commerce’s Elementary Chinese Economic Development Administration. Topics in Law and Society: Law, Culture, and Politics in China Political Economy of East Asia At Gallatin, Julie-Ann pursued a BA-MPA track in partnership with the Wagner Graduate STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT School of Public Service. In 2015, she deferred Financial Management for Public, Nonproft, and Health her enrollment at Wagner to join Accenture Organizations Management Consulting’s Health and Public Strategic Management Service Division. Performance Measurement and Management for Public, Nonproft, and Health Organizations International Economic Development: Government Markets Law for the Education Policymaker JULIE-ANN’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Stringed Instruments — Private Lessons for Non-Majors INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Institutions, Governance, and International Development Calculus I Introduction to Managing Public Service Organizations Economic Principles I Politics/Public Policy Elementary Chinese II Statistical Methods Intermediate Microeconomics I Trends and Issues in National Policymaking Intermediate Microeconomics II Political Teory GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY Boundaries and Transgressions Identity and Cultural Construction of Race Utopia: Te Logic and Ethics of Imagining New Worlds Consuming the Caribbean 5 EM WATSON, BA ’16 CONCENTRATION: Space and Social Meaning: Photography, Performance, and Design COLLOQUIUM: [Images of] Bodies in Space An artist-scholar from eastern Long Island, Social Change” and “Te Social Construction of Em was drawn to Gallatin’s interdisciplinary Reality,” as well as an internship at the Center experience because she wanted to study for Artistic Activism, made Em think about the photography, flm, dance, and theater. Tough role of the arts in social change. In 2015, she was her particular focus is on post-1960 experimental awarded a Dean’s Award for Summer Research dance and theater performance, she is also Grant in support of her photography travel project interested in body-mind awareness, architecture, “#OpenSkyOpenRoad.” and digital media. A dancer and choreographer, Em performed and created original works A photojournalism internship at Jacob’s Pillow for Gallatin’s student-run club, the Dancers/ Dance Festival brought her interest in dance and um Choreographers Alliance. photography together and allowed her to join the festival’s marketing team. Other internship As she developed her colloquium, [Images opportunities with American Eagle Design Studio of] Bodies in Space, she considered the concept and in the photography studio of Whitney Browne from both a material and theoretical standpoint. gave Em the chance to explore her academic Te courses “Nonviolence in Movements for interests in professional settings. Outside of 6 GALLATIN AT A GLANCE | BA PROFILES Gallatin, she works as a freelance photographer INTERNSHIPS and performs with dance companies around New American Eagle Design Studio Center for Artistic Activism York City. Em’s photography has been published in Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Te Boston Globe, American Teatre magazine, and on Whitney Browne Photography the cover of Ballet Review. STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT African Dance EM’S PROGRAM INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND Introduction to Design I INDIVIDUALIZED PROJECTS: Analysis of Dance Technique